Ratatouille, Flicka, Little Mermaid, and High School Musical

This past friday I saw Ratatouille. Pixar did pretty well; their short intro clip entitled "Lifted" was funny as well. They've stumbled upon a good thing. The whole concept of a mini clip before the movie makes it feel as though you're getting way more for your money, the allusion of quality is created and somehow segued into the main film. Good job Pixar. One thing I thought interesting though is there seems to be a plethora films coming out lately with this "you're right, your father is wrong, therefore do what you need to to feel happy" theme. Did someone out there have a bad relationship with their father?! Most of the movies are for children, but that makes them all the more damaging which will mostly likely result in causing the already fragile family structure in America to become even more unstable.


Flicka is a main one that comes to mind. In this film, if you can call it that, the father is completely unreasonable to the point of absurdity, his daughter played by Alison Lohman, the girl in Matchstickmen and White Oleander is this total angel who's done absolutely nothing to elicit this amazingly unjust behavior except having the strong desire to be herself. And going back a few years, ok a lot of years, there comes the


Little Mirmaid in which film Aerial's father is out to keep her strapped down for life, depriving her from being "up where they talk, up where they walk, up where they stay all day in the sun," where she's wishing she could just be "part of their world." etc. Poor Aerial, (whose name by the way happens to be the same word used for describing the part of a plant which grows above the ground, like when the roots are showing above ground etc....that was no mistake.) Oh and then coming back to the present there's Highschool Musical, a movie wherein both main characters go against their parents wishes and join a musical. Not to mention almost every single boy, including the main guy, Troy Bolton but more overtly in the character of Ryan Evans, acts unusually feminine.
(Heh, ok that's not Ryan Evans in the picture, but seriously just watch the movie and by the end you'll completely agree with me, or your money back.)

Hum...it seems as though H.G. Wells' picture of the future was not far from the truth in his book Time Machine.